Project Manager: Johannes Wieninger, Curator, Asia Collection
As a continuation of the project Asia and Europe, 15001700, which was concluded in 2009 with the major exhibition GLOBAL:LAB, the work on the project of the 18th century began, which deals above all with the relationship between Europe (particularly Austria) and East Asia (particularly China and Japan). The extensive MAK Collection represents the core of this work, which will also encompass holdings and archives at other Austrian cultural institutions. This project is intended to culminate in an exhibition and a large-scale publication.
Project Manager: Johannes Wieninger, Curator, Asia Collection
The MAK Asia Collection consists of around 25,000 objects from China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam dating from between the Neolithic period and the present; these represent a wide range of artistic and artisan output from Asia and simultaneously provide insight into the centuries-long reciprocal relationship between Asia and Europe. Like other collections of its kind, the MAK Asia Collection is itself a work of Orientalism: all of the objects collected here were selected by Europeans and thus represent European tastes.
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